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The Road to SuccessThe "BS" stands for "Business Stories." But these aren't tales about working in the Depression, spun by your grandfather as he dreamily inhales from his pipe. The Road to Success Goes Through the Salad Bar is a chance for corporate America to laugh at itself through observations gleaned from Greg Schwem, a stand-up comedian who has spent nearly 20 years performing for some of the nation's largest and most profitable companies. He's also a nationally syndicated humor columnist for Tribune Content Agency. View a funny video about his newest book here.

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Susan Konig

Susan Konig, a 2006 Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop keynote speaker alongside her comedian husband Dave Konig, has been called "hilarious," "witty" and "downright Bombeckian" by Publisher's Weekly and USA Today in reviews of her humor series The Motherhood Trilogy. This spring, Konig republished all three best-selling titles under her newly founded publishing imprint, Willow Street Press. Why Animals Sleep So Close to the Road, I Wear the Maternity P ...
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Post-Labor Day e-mail inbox cleanup

The week after Labor Day is traditionally considered "America Gets Back to Work Week!" by office managers and other spoilsports. Efficiency experts say the best way to "streamline" your work is to cut down on distractions, but many people return from vacation to find their email inboxes "jam-packed" with hundreds of distracting messages! Here's how you can "cut through the clutter" of accumulated e-mails and annoying "random" quotation marks: Set a cut-off date, then delete earlier mess ...
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